STAY AWAY FROM SCHOOL – FOR NOW

RE­CENT in­ci­dents of dam­age to let­ter­boxes in Man­ning have been a con­cern. Act­ing Snr Sgt Ker­ber said peo­ple needed to main­tain aware­ness of be­long­ings while in shop­ping cen­tres. Purses are still be­ing stolen from unat­tended hand­bags inside stores, lead­ing to a large num­ber of fraud of­fences where stolen credit cards are be­ing used. In in­stances where you dis­cover that your bank or credit cards have been stolen, re­port the mat­ter to your bank im­me­di­ately and have a stop put on the card. With the school hol­i­days draw­ing to a close over the com­ing weeks and par­ents breath­ing a col­lec­tive sigh of re­lief, can we re­mind ev­ery­one that school premises are still off lim­its. Re­cent in­ci­dents at Kens­ing­ton Pri­mary School, where dam­age was caused in sev­eral rooms and a small grass fire was lo­cated out­side one of the build­ings, has po­lice and Ed­u­ca­tion Se­cu­rity alike on alert. Po­lice con­tinue to mon­i­tor and pa­trol the schools but we can't be ev­ery­where all the time. Call the Po­lice As­sis­tance Cen­tre on 131 444 to re­port any in­ci­dents that are oc­cur­ring, or call Crime Stop­pers on 1800 333 000.

– Kens­ing­ton Act­ing Se­nior Sergeant Gavin Ker­ber

The first oc­curred about 2.10pm on Jan­uary 15 in Red­cliffe when a man en­tered an adult store on Great East­ern High­way and fled with cash. The sec­ond oc­curred about 6.30pm on the same day, when a man en­tered a del­i­catessen on Al­bany High­way, East Vic­to­ria Park, again flee­ing with cash. In both in­ci­dents the man threat­ened staff with a knife. He is de­scribed as about 30 years old, about 180-185cm tall, with fair skin and a medium build. He was wear­ing a dark blue sin­glet, black jeans and had dark sunglasses on top of his head. Call Crime Stop­pers on 1800 333 000 if you can help.

found a man hid­ing in a Kew­dale business overnight on Jan­uary 18. At about 12.40am, po­lice were called to business premises on McDow­ell Street in Kew­dale. Po­lice at­tended and Enzo en­tered the build­ing to search for the of­fender. Enzo found the man in a stor­age room hid­ing be­hind some ma­chin­ery. The 23-year-old Bent­ley man was taken into cus­tody and charged with bur­glary and crim­i­nal dam­age. He will ap­pear in the Perth Mag­is­trates Court on Fe­bru­ary 3.

The Carlisle Lo­cal Polic­ing Team had a win re­cently. They con­ducted a two-day op­er­a­tion. Nine peo­ple were dealt with for pub­lic or­der, do­mes­tic vi­o­lence and traf­fic of­fences.